Linux kernel modifications for the Kernel Hacking exam
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Manfred Spraul 0d97a82ba8 ipc/msg.c: update and document memory barriers
Transfer findings from ipc/mqueue.c:

- A control barrier was missing for the lockless receive case So in
  theory, not yet initialized data may have been copied to user space -
  obviously only for architectures where control barriers are not NOP.

- use smp_store_release().  In theory, the refount may have been
  decreased to 0 already when wake_q_add() tries to get a reference.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191020123305.14715-5-manfred@colorfullife.com
Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: <1vier1@web.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-02-04 03:05:24 +00:00
arch kgdb patches for 5.6-rc1 2020-02-03 16:59:51 +00:00
block SCSI misc on 20200129 2020-01-29 18:16:16 -08:00
certs
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2020-01-28 15:38:56 -08:00
Documentation smp_mb__{before,after}_atomic(): update Documentation 2020-02-04 03:05:23 +00:00
drivers mm/memory_hotplug: drop valid_start/valid_end from test_pages_in_a_zone() 2020-02-04 03:05:23 +00:00
fs fs/proc/page.c: allow inspection of last section and fix end detection 2020-02-04 03:05:23 +00:00
include mm/memory_hotplug: drop valid_start/valid_end from test_pages_in_a_zone() 2020-02-04 03:05:23 +00:00
init init/main.c: fix misleading "This architecture does not have kernel memory protection" message 2020-01-31 10:30:41 -08:00
ipc ipc/msg.c: update and document memory barriers 2020-02-04 03:05:24 +00:00
kernel kgdb patches for 5.6-rc1 2020-02-03 16:59:51 +00:00
lib kcov: ignore fault-inject and stacktrace 2020-01-31 10:30:41 -08:00
LICENSES
mm mm/memory_hotplug: drop valid_start/valid_end from test_pages_in_a_zone() 2020-02-04 03:05:23 +00:00
net Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-01-31 12:16:36 -08:00
samples drm pull for 5.6-rc1 2020-01-30 08:04:01 -08:00
scripts Kconfig updates for v5.6 2020-02-01 10:25:55 -08:00
security linux-kselftest-5.6-rc1-kunit 2020-01-29 15:25:34 -08:00
sound sound updates for 5.6-rc1 2020-01-28 16:26:57 -08:00
tools - Most of the commits here are work to enable host-initiated hibernation 2020-02-03 14:42:03 +00:00
usr initramfs: do not show compression mode choice if INITRAMFS_SOURCE is empty 2020-02-03 17:31:43 +00:00
virt Merge branch 'cve-2019-3016' into kvm-next-5.6 2020-01-30 18:47:59 +01:00
.clang-format
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore
.mailmap pci-v5.6-changes 2020-01-31 14:48:54 -08:00
COPYING
CREDITS open: introduce openat2(2) syscall 2020-01-18 09:19:18 -05:00
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MAINTAINERS pci-v5.6-changes 2020-01-31 14:48:54 -08:00
Makefile Kbuild updates for v5.6 2020-02-01 10:01:52 -08:00
README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.